Indicted Senator’s Aide: I’m Going to Kick This Reporter’s White Ass

An aide to indicted state Sen. John Sampson (D), not taking kindly to a reporter’s inquiry into some questionable campaign contribution filings, hung up and then threatened to kick his “white ass.”

City & State reporter Nick Powell, was researching a report on a $500 contribution from a “Rubain Doranis” to Sampson’s re-election campaign (he is running despite being indicted for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from housing escrow accounts), when the verbal altercation took place.

Noting that the contribution misspelled the name of Rubain Dorancy, a candidate trying to fill Eric Adams vacant seat, and that the address for the contribution was to Sampson’s district office in Brooklyn, Powell sought comment from both men.

After speaking with the Dorancy campaign about the irregularities, Powell was told that the mistake actually occurred with Sen. Sampson’s filing. So he called Sampson’s office…

Dorancy’s campaign offered no explanation for the misspelling of Dorancy’s name and the fact that his address was listed as Sampson’s office, pointing out that the mistake occurred in Sampson’s filing. When City & State called Sampson’s district office to inquire about the error, a Sampson aide refused to cooperate and hung up the phone. When City & State redialed the number and asked for contact information for Sampson’s campaign, the aide grew irritable and threatened to “kick [this reporter’s] white ass.”

About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.